The AP, Oscar Robertson Trophy, awarded by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, Naismith Trophy and NABC award are four of seven player of the year honors recognized by the NCAA, which started tracking national players of the year in 1959. The Basketball Times, the Wooden Award and the Adolph Rupp Trophy are the others.

Before Mason, only three KU players had won at least one of those seven awards. None had won consensus player of the year status, or four or more in the same year.

Danny Manning won the Wooden, NABC and Naismith player of the year awards during the Jayhawks’ 1988 NCAA championship season. Bradley’s Hersey Hawkins won the other four.

Drew Gooden shared the NABC honor with Duke’s Jason Williams in 2002 and Nick Collison won it outright in 2003.

Mason is one of five finalists for the Wooden Award (announced at 7 p.m. Friday). The Rupp Trophy did not name a player of the year in 2016 and the Basketball Times awarded its 2017 honor to Purdue's Caleb Swanigan.

The NCAA uses four teams to determine that honor: The USBWA, NABC, AP and Sporting News. Three points are awarded for first-team honors, two for second team and one for third team. The top five point totals plus ties are consensus All-Americans.